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December 23, 2007

Capital Flows
A Saudi investment authority?

The FT broke a major story -- at least in my world -- late on Friday. The Saudis are about to set up a sovereign wealth fund: Saudi Arabia plans to establish a sovereign wealth fund that is expecte…

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January 18, 2008

Monetary Policy
The new (financial) world order

In 2007: China’s government added $430b to its foreign exchange reserves. Russia’s government added $150b to its foreign exchange reserves. China’s state banks likely - this is the only…

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February 11, 2008

Financial Markets
It is good to be the king …

Of oil, that is.The Saudis just released data showing just how much foreign exchange they added to their stockpile in 2007. Jim Hamilton (cool photos) reports that the Saudis now seem to be working a…

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March 17, 2008

Economics
Trading up — Jeff Frankel and Rachel Ziemba will be guest blogging this week

I will be away most of this week and will not be posting regularly. In the interim though, the quality of this blog is likely to go up.Jeff Frankel of Harvard (who recently started his own blog) h…

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March 18, 2008

Sovereign Funds: The writing on the wall…

Rachel Ziemba Note: This post is from Rachel Ziemba, not Brad Setser. "Like private firms, pension funds, and other institutional investors, Abu Dhabi’s investment organizations have always sought …

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